Category: Announcements
Announcements for meetings
16th IACHEC Workshop: Registration is now open!
Meeting dates: 12 – 16 May 2024
The 16th IACHEC workshop will be held at the Parador de LA Granja in Spain (https://paradores.es/en/parador-de-la-granja) about 1 hours drive from Madrid.
Important Dates
Meeting registration and abstract submission deadline: April 7th, 2024
Hotel registration deadline: April 12th, 2024
16th IACHEC Workshop: registration opening soon!
Meeting dates: 12 – 16 May 2024
The 16th IACHEC workshop will be held at the Parador de LA Granja in Spain (https://paradores.es/en/parador-de-la-granja) about 1 hours drive from Madrid. The meeting will run over 3.5 days, starting Monday the 13th and ending on Thursday 16th at noon. A reception and dinner will be provided on Sunday the 12th.
The 15th IACHEC workshop: Program
The talks from the 15th IACHEC workshop in Pelham are now available.
Registration now open for the 15th Workshop
April 23-27th
This will be our first in-person meeting since 2019 and we are excited to be seeing all of you again! As usual, the format of the workshop will be three and half days, starting Monday morning April 24th and finish on Thursday April 27th at noon, with a mix of the working group meetings and contributed talks.
The 15th IACHEC meeting will be held at the Hotel Seeblick, which is located in Pelham at the Pelhamer See in Bavaria, Germany, 1hour 15minutes from the Munich International Airport.
Important dates
Registration deadline: March 17th, 2023
15th IACHEC Workshop
23-27 April 2023
We are excited to announce our first in-person meeting since 2019, which is to be held in Pelham at the Hotel Seeblick in Bavaria, Germany. Please visit the meeting webpage: 15th IACHEC Workshop and fill out the pre-registration form to help with organization.
2022 Spring Virtual Workshop
May 23-25th, 9:00 am – 12:00 EDT
We are pleased to announce that our 2022 IACHEC workshop will be happening this May, and that the program is now available.
Important dates
- Registration: May 18th, 2022
Fall 2021 Plenary: The X-ray Polarimeter Mission XPoSat
November 16 , 9am - 10am EST
The X-ray Polarimeter Mission XPoSat
Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute)
XPoSat (X-ray Polarimeter Satellite) is a mission dedicated for study of polarisation of cosmic X-ray sources. The X-ray polarisation measurements will be carried out with a Thomson scattering X-ray polarimeter instrument POLIX and simultaneous timing and spectroscopic measurements will be carried out with a co-aligned semiconductor based X-ray detectors system XSPECT. Energy bands of the two X-ray instruments are 8-30 keV for POLIX and 0.8-15.0 for XSEPCT. The polarisation measurement will be performed using anisotropic Thomson scattering of polarized X-rays and this will be enabled by spinning the satellite around the viewing axis of POLIX during the source observations. Being a dedicated X-ray polarisation mission in this unexplored energy band, XPoSat is poised to give us glimpses of a new frontier in high energy astrophysics and also allow many in-depth investigations of astrophysical processes in neutron stars and black hole sources. The instrument designs, some special aspects of the mission, and some of the key scientific issues will be discussed.
Fall WG meeting, November 8-10th, 2021
Date: November 8 – 10th, (9:00-11:00 EST/14:00-16:00 UTC)
We are very pleased to announce our second Working Group meeting this year. At the meeting, the Working Groups will report on the their progress and future plans, and we invite everyone to come join in our discussions and look forward to hearing from you. For more details on the meeting and how to join please see https://iachec.org/fall-virtual-meeting-2021/
We are also very pleased to announce our Fall Plenary: November 16th (9:00 – 10:00 EST/14:00 – 15:00 UTC)
The X-ray Polarimeter Mission XPoSat by Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute).
XPoSat is a mission dedicated for the study of polarization of cosmic X-ray sources. See full abstract.
15th IACHEC in-person meeting cancelled
After careful consideration, we have decided to cancel the in-person meeting at the Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke, VA, scheduled for May 22-26, 2022. The decision was made because we did not feel we could adequately ensure everyones safety in this continued pandemic environment due to low vaccination rates in the area, and because of continued travel restrictions at many institutions, which would limit international participation. It was also an economic decision, as the IACHEC is not capable of transferring funds between meetings and unable to absorb the impact of a meeting with lower than expected participation.
We have instead, hopefully, for the last time, converted into a virtual meeting on the days May 23-25, 2022, and direct you to the details here.
If you paid for this meeting in advance, please contact Trish Dobson at trish@eurekasci.com and she will arrange for a full or partial refund depending on your needs.